Tucker Carlson Technically, there’s still a contract with Fox News—but that doesn’t seem to stop the presenter from hacking into his new Twitter video series. on Thursday episode belong to Tucker on Twitter, Carlson’s latest venture since Fox canceled his primetime show in April, the host has revealed a number of in-house dramas are showing on the network. Fox News has parted ways with the producer behind a third chyron depicting Joe Biden Carlson as a “desired dictator”.
Carlson did not mention the name of the producer, although as reported by the Daily Beast, the producer did Alexander McCaskill, a former cast member of Carlson’s now-defunct Fox News program.
However, Carlson has clearly criticized the network’s chief executive, Suzanne Scott, said that “the women running the network panicked.” “First they scolded the producer for putting the banner on the screen,” he added. “Less than 24 hours later, he resigned. He’s been at Fox for over a decade. He is considered one of the most capable people in the building. He offered to stay for the customary two weeks, but Fox told him to pack up his desk and leave immediately. (A Fox News spokesperson previously said Vanity Fair that “Chyron was immediately taken down and disposed of.”)
Carlson is reportedly signing a non-competitive contract with Fox News through December 2024. According to Axios, the network sent him a cease and desist letter earlier this week about its decision to launch a show. new on his Twitter, making Carlson’s comment on the network’s chyron “scandal,” as he put it, all the more compelling.
Carlson devoted this section to defending McCaskill’s description of Biden and accusing the president of “trying to jail the other candidate for the rest of his life for a crime he himself committed.” Carlson also accused Biden of having “totalitarian impulses” and baselessly linked him to the January arrest. Michelle Witthoeft, mother of Ashli Babbitt, a pro-Trump rioter who was shot dead by police after storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021. (In fact, Witthoeft was arrested and charged after protesting. without a permit on the two-year anniversary of the Capitol attack. These costs were later reduced.)
As for Fox News, the network has suffered multiple attacks from other right-wing media figures since canning Carlson’s show. Most recently, the popular right-wing podcast host Matt Walsh, a leading propagandist on anti-transgender rhetoric, accused Fox Corp. has been too “sober” on LGBTQ+ issues (yes, Fox Corp. itself regularly reports harshly anti-LGBTQ+ articles on its news network).
